Thanks for the idea. I'll try it. Do you have a particular program you use for bitmap editing?
On Nov 18, 2003, at 1:53 PM, Bryan Forrest wrote: > I have a feeling Word is scaling down the picture to fit in the margin > settings. Images tend to get fuzzier when reduced down I've noticed. > Maybe you can open the image in another program, scale it down there, > and then import the new image into Word full sized. I've had similar > issues bringing in PDF files into Word and printing them out. > > Bryan C. Forrest > Macintosh Specialist > LifeNet > http://www.lifenet.org > > On Nov 18, 2003, at 1:22 PM, Stephen Ellis wrote: > >> I am new to the world of OS X. My printer is a Lexmark Z52, which I >> also used with my former computer (a Gateway PC). I frequently >> prepared a Word document that has a line to a bitmap file. When I >> print, the copy is not as clear and sharp as I would get before. >> What is most curious is that if I use the same bitmap in ax Excel >> file, the image is a sharp as it was before. I created the bitmap >> file with Finale (music notation software), printed out the page >> (which was sharp), then scanned that into a bitmap file (which when >> printed is also sharp). Since the same printer is being used for all >> of these applications, it would seem to be something within Word. >> Does anyone have any thoughts on the problem? >> >> Steve >> >> >> >> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >> | be November 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >> | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. >> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 1629 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20031118/d84aa57e/attachment.bin
